A gem in both scale and value, the i-mate JAM ($640 street, as low as $540 with contract) is the world’s smallest Pocket PC PDA/phone. It’s also the only Pocket PC phone that feels truly comfortable in the hand, making it a good (if expensive) choice for folks who desire a phone that runs Microsoft’s OS. Its lack of high-speed networking, though, makes it a poor choice for those who also need on-the-run Internet access.

At 5.4 ounces and only 4.5 by 2.3 by 0.7 inches (HWD), the aluminum-clad i-mate JAM is svelte. A particular design and engineering choice we approve of is the unit’s use of a four-way rocker in place of the usual overabundance of Pocket PC buttons. Surrounding the rocker—without crowding it—are intuitive phone pick-up and hang-up buttons, as well as a calendar and

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I ended my previous article (Linux on the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet) by saying that the release of the OS 2006 prepared the way for some serious VOIP work. The 770 can now make SIP-based VOIP phone calls and is more like what you’d expect from Nokia–a phone! 

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Samsung Electronics said Thursday it has developed a 60 GB 1.8-inch hard disc drive and will start mass-producing it early next year.

Smaller than a business card, the drive is capable of storing 40 DVD movies and 15,000 MP3 music files. It will be used for mini PCs, small notebook computers, portable multimedia players and MP3 players.

By mass-producing the drives, Samsung hopes to consolidate its lead in the mobile device market. Japan¡¯s Toshiba and Hitachi are leaders in the 1.8-inch hard disc drive market.

Sony Ericsson has unveiled its first 3G phone capable of supporting i-mode, the internet-on-your-phone service pioneered by Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo and offered over here in the UK by the O2 network.

The K610im is a classic Sony Ericsson handset design - it’s cased in black and there’s a landscape-oriented two-megapixel, 2.5x digital zoom camera on the back. The addition of 3G support includes an extra, front-mounted camera for video calls. The screen is a 1.9in, 176 x 220, 262,144-colour job

The handset has 16MB of user-accessible memory on board, expandable using MemoryStick Micro cards - there’s a 64MB card in the box, Sony Ericsson said. There’s all the usual media playback - it supports over-the-air downloads, along with OMA and i-mode DRM technologies. It offers the full range of phone messaging facilities, in addition to the extra mail and messaging tools i-mode offers.

In addition to 3G, the phone operates as a tri-band GSM/GPRS device. Bluetooth is on board too.

Sony Ericsson said the K610im will ship in “i-mode markets” in Europe, Asia and the Middle East in Q3. It did not say which, if any, i-mode carriers will offer the handset. ®

Source: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/06/19/sony_ericsson_3g_i-mode_phone/

The Nokia N73 offers a multimedia computer in a compact and savvy exterior with photography features and integrated stereo speakers with 3D sound. In addition to a large 2.4-inch display, the N73 includes a 3.2-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus and support for Internet communities like Flickr. Music fans can tap into the N73’s integrated digital music player with playlists and equalizer or tune into the FM radio. Available in 3G or quad-band EDGE/GSM networks, the N73 has all the diversity of a powerful multimedia computer enabled with the S60 3rd Edition Software on Symbian OS.

source: http://www.mobiledia.com/phones/nokia/n73.html

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ASIA : Nextreaming Corporation, a leader in mobile video software for operators and handset manufacturers announced that its Nexembedded™ Suite was selected to equip PG-K6000V of Curitel Communications Inc., a major handset manufacturer in Korea, with advanced multimedia features unavailable on any previous CDMA 1x EV-DO handset.

The PG-K6000V provides advanced features such as a 1.3 megapixel CMOS camera and MPEG-4 streaming player working on KTF’s EV-DO network in Korea. The PG-K6000V’s clamshell form factor with swivel hinge simplifies creating pictures and movies. Nextreaming licensed its Nexembedded™ player, a MPEG-4 audio/video player supporting downloaded and streaming content playback, Nexembedded™ Camcorder, a MPEG-4 video encoder, Nexembedded™ Camera, a JPEG codec and sophisticated image management tools, and provided professional services, to integrate them into the handset.

“The release of the PG-K6000V marks an important milestone in our mobile multimedia evolution,” said M.S. Song, President & CEO of Curitel Communications Inc., “Working with Nextreaming, we were able to efficiently integrate a complete multimedia solution, enabling our handset to enter the market on time and with more advanced features than any other in the market. We plan to develop high-tech multimedia mobile phones continuously and aim to be one of the leading mobile phone companies in the world market.”
Nextreaming’s optimized software based camcorder creates personal movie clips of up to 3 hours without adversely affecting battery life. It also enables a camera supporting up to 1280×960 resolution, with better resolution than other handsets currently released in the EV-DO market.

“Nextreaming is honored to have been selected by Curitel to include our multimedia software in their advanced handset.” said Dr. IL-TAEK LIM, President & CEO Nextreaming, “Adding multimedia software solutions within advanced handsets provides additional functionality with little incremental costs. Choosing Nextreaming provides partners such as Curitel with the most complete and optimized multimedia solution on the market today.”

Nextreaming is demonstrating this handset and other products at Mobile Entertainment Market 2004 in London between June 2~3, and CommunicAsia 2004 in Singapore between June 15~18

Source: http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/June2004/7850.htm